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Steam for heating the conservatories, range 2, is supplied 
from a boiler house near this structure, a little to the north. 
2. The Botanical Museum 
The Museum Building has a frontage of 312 feet, and in 
so far as now constructed, a depth of about go feet; the plan 
of this building contemplates its future extension toward 
the rear, so as to form a quadrangle enclosing a court. The 
architectural style of the building is Italian Renaissance. 
The walls are of light-colored brick and the trimmings of 
terra-cotta. It has a steel frame and concrete floors. 
Three floors are devoted to public exhibits, while the upper 
floor contains study rooms, the library, laboratories and 
herbarium, which may be used and consulted by permission. 
The building is approached by two straight driveways 
and accompanying sidewalks leading from the main park 
driveway near the New York Central Railroad station; 
this front approach to the building is ornamented by a 
bronze fountain executed by the sculptor Carl E. Tefft, 
and by terra-cotta fountains and marble seats designed by 
R. W. Gibson, the architect of the building. The vista 
lines are formed by four parallel rows of tulip trees. 
The public collections in this building are: 
1. THE MUSEUM OF ECONOMIC BOTANY 
This occupies the entire main floor, and comprises both 
crude and refined products of plants used in the arts, the 
sciences, and the industries, as well as illustrative photo- 
graphs and drawings. The specimens are arranged as 
products, including foods, drugs, fibers, gums, resins, 
sugars, rubbers, spices and flavoring-agents, dye-stuffs, 
tanning-materials, plant-constituents, fixed- and volatile- 
oils, cork, starches, and others as indicated by the accom- 
panying floor plan. 
The arrangement of the larger groups is as follows: 
Foods and fibers occupy the west hall, the former in cases 
on the north side, the latter on the south. The west wing 
